Bollin Valley Partnership - 40 Years - Dunham, UK
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dtrebilc
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This marker stone on the Bollin Valley Way celebrates the 40th year of the Bollin Valley Partnership that manages public footpaths in the area around the River Bollin.
Waymark Code: WMWNRD
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/23/2017
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In the late 1960s, Hale Unity District Council approached Cheshire County Council regarding setting up a Countryside Management Service. This was to operate across administrative boundaries along the length of the River Bollin. Assistance and funding from the Countryside Commission (now part of Natural England) led to the partnership being set up. The Partnership started in 1972 as a pioneering experiment in managing land around towns for wildlife and informal recreation, with due regard for local farmers.
From the outset the Bollin Valley Partnership worked with local people:individuals; farmers and landowners; groups; schools and businesses. The photograph above shows a Bollin Valley ranger tree planting with local children at Lacey Green in 1975.
Initially the Partnership only covered a small area of the River Bollin's Catchment between Wilmslow and Bowden. By 1987 the area had extended from the fringe of Macclesfield Forest, where the River Bollin rises, to where it flows into the Manchester Ship Canal between Partington and Warburton.
The earliest site managed by the partnership was Rossmill in 1976. Macclesfield Riverside Park opened officially in 1989 and the Aviation Viewing Park managed in partnership with Manchester Airport plc in 1992. The way-marking of the Bollin Valley Way, a long distance footpath following the course of the River Bollin was originally completed in 1993 and not long afterwards the Trafford section of the Trans Pennine Trail, from Heatley to Broadheath, opened to walkers, cyclists, horse-riders and people in wheelchairs or those pushing buggies."
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This section of both the Bollin Valley Way and the Trans Pennine Trail follows the route of the former Warrington and Altrincham Railway and is popular with walkers and cyclists.
"The Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway was a railway line that was in operation from 1 November 1853 to 7 July 1985. The railway was created by an act of parliament on 3 July 1851[1] to build a line between Timperley Junction on the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway(MSJAR), to provide a through route to Manchester, and Warrington Arpley on the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway providing a link with Liverpool."
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BOLLIN VALLEY PARTNERSHIP
BOLLIN
1973 2013
VALLEY
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF COUNTRYSIDE MANAGEMENT